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Boerner on Enron Fallout: "Crisis of Confidence"(April 2002)Lead Paragraph:As issue managers, we know that signal detection
is a critical skill for identifying, scoping, analyzing and monitoring issues, and quite
necessary as we develop strategies for and act on critical issues of concern to our
organizations. What went wrong at Enron in the signal detection process? How important
are the lessons of the Enron crisis situation to us as individual corporate issue managers?
(Especially if we are not involved in the financial reporting function?)